Legendary Prague native Franz Kafka was incomprehensibly overlooked in the city for a long time. A square bearing his name was only created in 2000 and he only received a monument three years later. Its originality has sparked great passion since the beginning.
The Franz Kafka Monument is a bronze statue by sculptor Jaroslav Róna. Some 3.75 m in height and weighing no less than 700 g, it stands between the Church of the Holy Spirit and the Spanish Synagogue. It took the Franz Kafka Society four long years to bring the artwork to reality but in the end they had it erected in time for the 120th anniversary of the writer’s birth. A small copy of the statue, also of bronze, has symbolised the international Franz Kafka Prize for literature since 2001; recipients include Elfriede Jelinek, Harold Pinter and Ivan Klíma.
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